Cash-carrier apparatus.



No. 754,424. PATENTED MAB.. 15, 1904.

D. CHISM.- CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 0013.3. 1903.

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UNITED STATES I Patented `lVllarcll 15, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

DAVID E. CHISIVL OF STAFFORD SPRINGS, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO INDEPENDENT STORE SERVICE COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSA- CHUSETTS.

CASH-CARRIER APPARATUS- S1ECIIEICA'JJION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,424, dated March 15, 1904.

Application led October 3, 1903.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

' Be it known that I, DAVID E. CHISM, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Stafford Springs, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash- Carrier Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to cash-carrier apparatuses of the general .class in which is comprised a trackway and, carrier cord or cable therealong, with branched trackways at stations, and in conjunction therewith cashboxes having extended thin necks and elongated longitudinally -ranging heads with troughs therein in which the carrier-cord becomes engaged for the propulsion ofthe box,

the box being switched from the trackway and I disengaged from the cord at a station, such general description of cash-carrier apparatus being found in the Letters Patent of the United `States issued to Chamberlain, Chism, and

Cooper, dated November 5, 1901, No. 685,740. The present improvements are applicable in connection with the portion of the cashcarrier system located adjacent the station, and especially where the trackway isso'elevated as to be out of reach of the saleslady or person thereat.

' The object of the device is to facilitate the introduction of the cash-box which is to be transmitted to the cashiers desk into its engagement with the trackway running thereto and the carrier-cord for its propulsion.

The invention comprises, in combination with the portion of a cash-carrier apparatus adjacent a station and a suitable supporting part or fixture, of a pivotally-mounted arm adapted to be swung from a more or less nearly horizontal position to a more or less nearly vertical position and being provided with a cash-box-holding portion and all arranged and adapted to permit the placing of the cash-box within the holder therefor of said arm and upon the latter being swung to carry the box so that its head becomes engaged with the elevated trackway and carriersemi No. 175,618. (No man.)

therefor in said swinging arm, imparting thereto its course along the trackway to the cashiers desk or central station.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichw Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a plan view of an under portion of the outgoing trackway and carrier-cord therein such as provided adjacent a station. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the head portion of the cash-box, showing its adaptation for being engaged by a button or enlargement of the carrier-cord. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the cash-box having ahead somewhat dilferently constructed and adapted to engage a buttonless carrier-cord.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, A represents the cash-carrier trackway, which is here indicated as of tubular form, having at and along its bottom the longitudinal slot a, whereby runner-ways at opposite sides thereof are created and within and along which tubular trackway the carrier-cord B runs, having its course of travel in the direction indicated by the arrow. The cord in the trackway A is understood as running toward the cashiers station, while the cord in the opposite trackway A2 has its course returning from the cashiers station and having therein the station branched trackway C,

vto which the cash-box individual to such station is switched and led down to the lower terminal of such branch. The tubular trackway adjacent the station, as shown, is constructed with an opening ,6, having the opposite guiding-lips c o formed by downwardlydeflected portions of the tubing at either side of the slotway, all whereby the guidance and I-I represents a brace-rod having connectionl with the overhead connection-bracket F2 and havinga screw-tensioning connection with the aforementioned depending support G, this or any other ad equate strengthening and bracing member being manifestly desirable.

The pivoted part J may advantageously be of comparatively light construction-as, for instance, by being composed of a metallic tubing of light gage, said part comprising the handle extension f and the arm g. Beyond the pivot from the part f the upper end of the member q of the lever J is equipped with a cash-box holder L, the same comprising the opposite members /L t, arranged fork-like and at opposite sides of the plane in which the lever J is arranged to swing, and the rear-v wardly-located bowed member c', the location of which is in the median plane between the fork-like and upwardly-opening parts li 7b.

When the lever-constituted carrier device for the cash-box is swung from its normal and approximately horizontal position, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, the box may, as there shown, be dropped within the substantially upwardly and forwardly opening cage or pocket therefor constituted by the opposite side and rear prong-like parts /i and z', and when the carrier is swung to the vertical position, as shown by the full lines in Fig. 1, the approximately cylindricallyshaped head of the cash-box will be introduced through the opening Z), leading into the tubular trackway, and the upwardly-opening trough-head of the box will be forced to an embrace about and engagement with the running carrier-cord, whereupon immediately the box will partake of the movement of the cord and will be carried bodily out from the holder L, departing from the sales-station to the central station.

Although no invention is to be pointed out at this time as consisting in the form of the cash-box head, it is deemed well in order to impart an understandingof the availability of this invention to indicate, as by reference to Fig. 3, that the longitudinally-ranging head D of the cash-box may be constructed with an upwardlyopening longitudinal groove q, along in which the carrier-cord may be disposed, such grooved head having intermediately therein an upstanding abutment 0, with which the button p of the carrier-cord may engage, substantially as illustrated and described in the aforementioned patent of Chamberlain, Chisni, and Cooper, or the cashbox head instead of having the longitudinal upwardly-opening groove therein straight and having therein the abutment, asaforementioned, for engaging the button or enlargement of the cord may have thai groove q2, as shown in Fig. 4, sinuous as to its length, whereby in becoming engaged with the cord the cord is kinked or rendered bowed conformable to the so-formed groove in the head and as described and explained in my application for Letters Patent of the United States, filed March 9, 1903, Serial No. 146,850.

A stop or rest-such, for instance, as indicated at m in Fig. l-is advantageously provided, onto which the lever-like part having the cash-box holder may be brought for sustaining such lever-like part in its horizontal position, such being understood as the normal position thereof` for the reception and removal from the holder of the box.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi 1. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the combination with a traclrway and 'a cash-box propulsion-cord arranged therealong, of a part piv- .otally mounted below the trackway and provided with a cash-box holder, for the purpose described. l

2. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the combination with a trackway and a propulsion-cord arranged therealong, of a cash-box having a head adapted to engage the cord, and a part pivotally mounted below the trackway and provided with a holder in which the body of the box may be supported and beyond which the box-head may project and said part being arranged for swinging movement in a vertical plane approximately coincident with the trackway, whereby the holder portion thereof may be lowered within easy reach, and swung upwardly into proximity to the trackway.

3. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the combination with a trackway and a propulsion-cord arranged therealong, of a part pivtally mounted below the traclzway and arranged to swing to bring its extremity to a lowered position of easy reach and to be presented upwardly in proximity to the traclway and said Vextremity being provided with acash-box holder comprising opposite side fork-like members and a rearwardly-located member.

4. rlhe combination with the cash-carrier structure comprising an elevated trackway and a depending support, of a propulsion-cord arranged to run along the trackway, and amernber intermediately pivotally mounted on said depending support below the trackway, provided at its one extremity with a cash-box holder, and a cash-box comprising a body and an extended head adapted to engage the propulsion-cord and al'l arranged for operation, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a trackway of tu, bular form having alongitudinal bottom slot and an opening through said slotted bottom, of a width to permit the entrance therethrough into the tubular trackway of a cash-box head, of the propulsion-cord arranged to run along within the trackway-tube, a mem ber pivotally mounted below the trackway and arranged to be swung from approximately horizontal to approximately vertical positions and having at its extremity the cash-box holder, and a cash-box comprising a body and an extended head having an upwardly-opening groove therein and adapted for engagement about said cord, substantially as described.

6. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the combination with a trackway of tubular form having a longitudinal bottom slot, and opposite lower portions of the tube adjacent the slot downwardly extended and sidewise located,whereby a box-head entrance into the tube is produced having opposite depending guide-lips therefor, of the propulsion-cord arranged to run along Within the trackWay-tube, a member pivotally mounted below the trackway and arranged to swing in a vertical plane approXi- I5 mately coincident With the trackWay and provided With a cash-box holder at its extremity, and the cash-box comprising a head and a body from Which said head is extended adapted to be received Within said holder and said head being constructed for engagement with the propulsion-cord.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

DAVID E. CHISM. Witnesses:

W. S. BELL'oWs, A. V. LEAHY. 

